"Fade Correction" - which software for Mac?

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Newbie here but had a question.

I am about to buy my first DSLR having finally switched from my trusty OM10 after all this time. Between my wife (with twenty years of 35mm P&S fun) and I we have a whole crate of prints and negatives that we want to get on our computer.

I bought a Pics 2 SD scanner (actually I think it is really a digital camera in a box!) to use for this purpose. Looking at the reviews on Amazon people one person said this:

Again as with any of these analogue to digital 'magic' image boxes, it would be totally unrealistic to accept the initial output as anything worth archiving, unless you're ridiculously easy to please. So you have to use a software package to clean the initial results up. Using the 'Fade Correction' button on the software I use, is enough to give me a very good/fresh looking image from a 35mm slide taken back in 1964.
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Being a Mac they don't supply any software to do this. I have on my MacBook iPhoto and Pixelmator but wondered if someone could suggest what software would do this?

Thanks so much for your help.
 
So what is it about the scanned results you're not happy with? From what i understand fade correction is just something that cleans up dirty borders, I could be wrong though.

If you just want to enhance your images then I suggest you get yourself Aperture 3 for Mac, at only £45 I don't think there really is a better value alternative.
This will give you all the tools you need to boost old photos, and clean them up, improve contrast, sharpness etc.

You can download a free trial before you buy it to.

http://www.apple.com/aperture/
 
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My suspicion is that "Fade Correction," triesto compensate for images that have faded. My suspicion is that it increases contrast and saturation, plus maybe darkens the dark and shadow areas. iPhoto may help as it does have some very useful controls in the edit mode.

Try it , as you got it free with the Mac. If you find that you need more controls, by all means try Aperture, but also check out Photoshop Elements. Available as a 30 day trial on the Adobe site.
 
Fade correction is an automatic levels/contrast/saturation enhancement within Paint Shop Pro. It's actually pretty good as a one shot:

fade.jpg
 
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Thanks for all your help :-)

That PSP feature is exactly what I'm talking about. I am hoping that Aperture might have it so I can batch process the scans. I'm going to download the 30 day trial.
 
Even iPhoto has that. It is just autocorrect isn't it? And then you can play with the sliders how strong you want each effect.
 
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